There is a story about a princess
who wants, more than anything else, to have the moon. The King invites astronomers, physicists, and
engineers to the palace to figure out how to capture the moon. They use graphs and charts to explain to the
king that his daughter’s request is impossible.
Then the King’s old friend, the Court Jester, steps in with the
solution. He asks the princess how she
believes they could capture the moon.
She explains that you could just climb up into a tree to grab it and
that it is only as big as her thumbnail and made of gold. So the King make a little gold moon gives it
to the princess and she’s cured, but wait, not so fast! The King realizes his plan will be foiled as
soon as the moon rises the next evening.
Again he turns to his great thinkers who suggest blindfolding the
princess and other impractical sort of plans.
Again the Jester asks the princess why the moon would rise even after
she possessed it. She explained that after she looses a baby tooth it grows back and a flower when picked grows back so then the moon will also grow back. It’s so brilliant.
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| Captain Cora leads a game with princesses and jedi |
I was
recently thinking about this fable.
Sometimes, when you’re planning a party you can run into snags. For example, maybe you are throwing a
princess dress up party for your little girl’s birthday but she has friends who
are boys and girls. As an adult we might
wonder, will the boys feel left out?
Will they have fun? Let the boys
and girls dress up however they like. I
adored this party because a couple of boys were knights, which is very fitting
at a princess party. Even though they
were Jedi Knights! In the imaginary
world of children, Jedi and Ninjas play Simon says with fairy princesses. It’s a beautiful thing.
